AI tools meant to vet science are surprisingly easy to fool
The gold standard of scientific review, peer review by researchers’ colleagues, is in crisis. AI might offer a solution but has problems of its own.
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Many U.S. teens underestimate fentanyl’s deadly risk
A majority of 8th-graders and roughly a third of 10th- and 12th-graders do not see great risk in using fentanyl once or twice, a study
‘One of the oldest gravestones of a free Black person in America’ discovered in Boston
A team of conservationists has discovered and restored the tombstone of Sebastian, a formerly enslaved man who died free in 1729. “That discovery is likely
6,000-year-old broken ribs discovered in Syria may be one of the oldest known cases of child abuse in the world
The fragile and battered remains of an infant who lived about 6,000 years in Mesopotamia may be the oldest documented case of child abuse from
Artemis II Crew and Apollo 14 Moon Tree
The Artemis II crew participates in the dedication of the Apollo 14 Moon tree at the Lunar Receiving Park at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. This
A robot swarm is on a mission to map Greenland’s perilous ice sheets
The ambitious expedition aims to fill data gaps about the glacier-sea boundary to predict when the world might tip into a catastrophic climate regime.
Scientists say Beefalo are all beef, no -alo. Breeders disagree
A whole-genome analysis of Beefalo, a hybrid bison-cattle breed, suggests very few individuals have any bison DNA at all, a new study reports.
‘Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping’: Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a ‘mini-universe’ in his lab
For the first time, a physicist has experimentally watched time emerge from within an isolated quantum system — by creating a “mini-universe.” This bizarre experiment
2,500-year-old tomb of a ‘warrior prince’ with chariot and helmet discovered on Italy’s Adriatic coast
Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed the royal tomb of a pre- Roman “warrior-prince” along with the remains of his chariot and weapons. The tomb was
Euclid telescope discovers the 2 most ancient monster black holes in the universe — each brighter than a trillion suns
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope has spotted 31 previously unknown quasars dating to the universe’s earliest chapter, including the two oldest ever
Colorful ‘painting-like’ ripples cover an ancient seafloor structure the Bahamas — Earth from space
QUICK FACTS Where is it? Great Bahama Bank, Bahamas [23.547188707, -76.46352937] What’s in the photo? Submerged sandbanks and seagrass beds in shallow water Which satellite
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s survey of space and time will ‘be remembered 100 years from new,’ chief scientist Tony Tyson says. Here’s why.
On a dark mountaintop in Chile, the world’s largest digital camera has begun filming its masterpiece. This Tuesday (June 30), scientists with the Vera C.
Scientists just created the most lifelike cell ever made in a lab — here’s what it could accomplish
Scientists say they have built a “synthetic cell” that can eat, grow and divide in a way that’s remarkably similar to living cells. The research
Neanderthals and modern humans may have shared culture 59,000 years ago in Turkey, study finds
Deep in a limestone cave on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, archaeologists have uncovered evidence that Neanderthals and the modern humans who moved in later left behind